CH25: Sabine Seymour

A future where smart clothes are as ubiquitous as zippers

Imagine your everyday clothes had built-in human sensors that monitored vital signs and activity levels, played your favorite song and kept you connected. Dr Sabine Seymour, Director of Parsons’ Fashionable Technology Lab and Chair at Computational Fashion, started conceptualizing this vision long ago. Working at the intersection of fashion, design, branding, and technology, her mission is “to humanize technology, to be free from having to …

Homegirl Zine

An independent publication profiling creative women in their sanctuaries

After moving from Sydney to Melbourne, Australia, Ingrid Kesa found the atmosphere for creatives in the city to be one of “collaboration rather than competitiveness” and while making new friends and connections, came in contact with more than a few inspirational women. That, coupled with Kesa’s self-confessed voyeuristic streak, meant the idea for Homegirl Zine was an organic one. “I did some shooting and styling …

Rest in Peace, Elio Fiorucci

A touching tribute to the man who changed the face of fashion

Yesterday, 20 July, one of the most colorful lights of the international fashion faded away. Elio Fiorucci has, for decades, been a reference for those who consider fashion as a synonym for freedom, color, fun, love. Fiorucci could seek and understand trends before there was a business around that practice; a creative mind able to transform his passion for beauty into a global enterprise. He …